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A Quarter Century of Panic

Like most Americans, I spent September 11, 2001, filled with both rage and dread. I wanted the United States to find and kill whoever had planned this attack on my country. I knew little about al-Qaeda, but whoever did this, I thought, must pay. As the shock of that day wore off, I began to wonder, as so many others did in America and around the world, Now what? Saying this even 25 years later seems uncharitable,…